A week had gone by and life in the mansion had been mostly peaceful. Raphael spent lots of his time in the library, practicing writing and reading – mostly with Leo’s help, but when the other turtle was too busy with his own work, one of the girls assisted Raphael. Usually Margaret.
So quickly she had become like a mother figure to Raphael. That old smile and soft look in green eyes always eased Raphael’s nerves. Even now she spoke with such soft, slow and calming tone as Raphael was writing her name.
“You are marvelous, my dear. You are learning so quick and your hand has become so steady. Leonardo was right when he
“Alright.”
Leonardo said as he placed supplies in front of Raphael on the table. There was a pencil, eraser, exercise book and ABC book. Eyeing them in suspicious way Raphael listened Leonardo sitting down, moving his chair closer to the table.
“We will start from the beginning. First alphabets.”
Encouraged by Leonardo Raphael opened the book, seeing page full of letters. There was 2 of each of them in big and small form. Leonardo calmly moved his hand, pointing an “A”.
“This is letter A. Right next to is A too but in smaller form.”
“Why? Won’t one A be enough?”
Leonardo
First thing what was required from Raphael was to bathe. However he didn’t know how, so he just stood there staring the bath tub and shower in turns. Only way of bathing, to him, always had been using a cloth and rainwater from barrel.
Cherry peeked inside the room, smiling.
“Hey!”
Raphael jumped, turning to look at the young woman who was now carefully approaching him with a smile.
“Need any help?”
“N-No! I’m fine.”
She giggled as she stopped next to blushing turtle.
“It doesn’t look like that. You’ve been staring them like 30 minutes already.”
Raphael didn’
The world was crazy, split in two. Those who were rich had no worries, but those which had nothing – especially safe stamp either tattooed on them or as a collar on their necks – had more darker future. Literally everyone besides middle class and rich people were captured by “dogcatchers” and brought to their final place…
Shakily getting on all fours large mutant groaned, forcing all his strength to come to him as he stood up and ran at closing barred door – which slammed shut right in front of his face. Sedative was leaving his body, horror turning more and more stronger deep in his soul. With huge eyes h